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" Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Transformation
Change
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" I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge. "
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" I've always fought any form of censorship. "
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" Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really. "
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" For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space. "
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" Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution. "
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" Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there. "
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" Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse. "
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" Women are a minority the same way gay people are. "
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" I studied psychology at university. "
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" All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character. "
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" I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate. "
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" I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album 'Ya Nass.' He was writing the script for 'Only Lovers Left Alive.' Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic. "
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" The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think. "
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Me
World
" I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. "
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War
Middle
" When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities. "
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Doing
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" There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity. "
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" I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences. "
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Desires
Consequences
Follow
" It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that. "
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Normal
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" When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that. "
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Choose
Me
Words
" My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. "
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Played
Family
Communism
" It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging. "
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Learning
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" I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered. "
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Only
" I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory. "
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Always
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" When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that. "
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Own
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" I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand. "
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Language
" It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change. "
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" I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting. "
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